At the very heart of a multitrack system of public schooling lies an abominable discrimination. The system aims at different goals for different groups of children. . . .
The one-track system of public schooling that The Paideia Proposal advocates has the same objectives for all without exception.
These objectives are not now aimed at in any degree by the lower tracks onto which a large number of our underprivileged children are shunted — an educational dead end. It is a dead end because these tracks do not lead to the result that the public schools of a democratic society should seek, first and foremost, for all its children — preparation to go on learning, either at advanced levels of schooling, or in adult life, or both.
